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Catalog Number
2019.1.1435
Description
Two-page document: on one side is a list of the Company I and 25th Michigan Infantry from 1862 to 1865 is able.  On the other side is an article about the beginning of the Knickerbocker Theater, which is not related to the military document.

Company I and the 25th Michigan Infantry distinguished themselves at the Battle of Tebbs Bend, Kentucky on July 4, 1863. Under the command of Colonel Orlando Moore, a small band of Union infantrymen were charged with keeping the Confederates from crossing the Green River and moving on to Louisville. 
The men, including soldiers from Holland and Zeeland, held off eight attacks by unmounted Confederate cavalrymen led by celebrated General John Hunt Morgan.  Morgan was forced to bypass that spot and move instead to Lebanon, Kentucky.
 
History
Randall P. "Randy" Vande Water was a local historian and newspaper editor. He spent 4 decades at the Holland Sentinel working as sports editor, city editor, editorial page editor, and managing editor.
Gift of
Mary Vande Water, in honor of her husband Randy Vande Water.